Altman says OpenAI's math push briefly got out of control, deliberately, to probe model limits, and cost hundreds of millions including about $10 million on Navier-Stokes.
Model Name-Hold My Beer,” where employees “were just throwing that at the hardest problems they could”
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Altman said on the Cheeky Pint podcast that it is quite terrible for individuals to hold a large share of the world's limited DRAM supply in their personal computers.
It’s quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer.
Altman clarified on X that he wants people to have as much memory as they like in their computers, saying his earlier podcast remarks on the memory shortage were taken out of context.
I actually do want the world to have tons of memory and people to put as much as they want in their computers
Altman says people must always remain in control of the future and OpenAI rejects relegating humans to roles that AI systems decide to reward.
People should always be in control of the future. OpenAI is against the notion that it would be acceptable for people to be relegated to a role of doing things that ‘AI systems think makes sense to reward in humans.’
Altman argues the public should not cede control of the future to superintelligence, and that this should ultimately constrain AI progress.
should not cede control of the future to superintelligence, and that requirement should ultimately constrain AI progress
Altman told staff that if AI visibly goes badly wrong this year, biology is a plausible area for it to happen.
“If something goes visibly really wrong for AI this year, I think bio would be a reasonable bet.”